The bride is pressured

15And on the seventh day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband so that he may tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s household with fire. Did you invite us to dispossess us? Is that not so?”

16Then Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have posed the riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not told me.” And he said to her, “Look, I have not told my father or my mother, so should I tell you?”

17She wept before him the seven days that they had the feast. And on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard; then she told the riddle to the sons of her people.